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On the front facing the expected foes the openings are but little more than arrow-slits; on that within, facing the town, are well-proportioned mullioned and transomed windows.

From Vanishing England by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)

The walls are of great thickness, nearly six feet, and at the end are some later transomed Elizabethan windows, bricked up, and in a small outhouse below is "T.—1684;" a still later time-mark.

From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton

Everywhere we see signs of individual thought and design mainly directed to softening the rigidity of the horizontal lines of the square-headed and transomed "Perpendicular" windows.

From The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains by Woodhouse, Frederick W.

It was an ancient edifice of the fifteenth century, once a palace, now a training-school, with mullioned and transomed windows, and a courtyard in front shut in from the road by a wall.

From Jude the Obscure by Hardy, Thomas

Beautiful as Nevile's Court is, it was originally yet more beautiful, with transomed windows, and gabled dormers instead of the present eighteenth century parapet.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward